Courtesy of the Didact reposting [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2019/10/guest-post-pitiless-war-by-ltc-tom.html] , it's a message that has not lost its timeliness. namely, what one LTC Kratman has to say about pitiless war. > Here is what a decorated veteran of Operations Just Cause, Desert Storm, and Iraqi Freedom, LTC Tom Kratman (US Army - Ret) had to say in response to a rather pompous declaration [https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2015/11/13/hollande-vows-to-lead-a-pitiless-wa…
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You may have heard there's a video going 'round, courtesy of MEMRI, where a bunch of kids are dancing while singing about the wonders of lopping off infidel heads. Per the local paper [http://archive.is/BMnda]: > Youngsters at the Muslim American Society Islamic Center in North Philadelphia are shown in video footage speaking in Arabic during a celebration of “Ummah Day,” said the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a Middle East monitoring organization. One girl says "we will chop o…
The iconic image of the terrorist attack in 2016 in Nice, France is the one above of the little girl's dead body, her doll next to her, covered. And yes, it is a terrorist attack. Perhaps those in charge realize that naming these things "truck attacks", or pretending there's not a cultural commonality to a disporportionate number of them, as the tenor of the reporting has changed with the latest incident [https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/11/gunshots-in-center-of-french-city-strasbourg-leave-at-lea…
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One of the aspects of 4th gen and distributed warfare is how easy it is to dismiss individual attacks as just “rogue actors”. It’s not like the Tzarnev brothers, or your random joe jihad driving a truck of peace, or using a knife of peace, or (even in Europe, though less often) a gun of peace to enthusiastically greet the nearest snackbar with an “aloha!” are part of a military organization with a strict hierarchy, regular drills, and uniforms. It lies in part in the “unseen” – or what Eric Ray…
How few people need to be truly radical for "just a few of them" to be a systemic issue?